Iran’s North Korean Future

"A Tehran armed with nukes can play Pyongyang’s game — but with no Beijing to keep it in check."

Victor Davis Hanson   "In contrast, those who favor containment of a nuclear Iran do not quite know how the theocracy could be deterred — or how either Israel or the regional Sunni Arab regimes will react to such a powerful and unpredictable neighbor.
....
"A nuclear Iran would worry about neither a billion-person nuclear existential enemy nearby such as India, nor a billion-person patron such as China that would establish redlines to its periodic madness. Instead, Tehran would be free to do and say what it pleased. And its nuclear status would become a force multiplier to its enormous oil wealth and self-acclaimed world leadership of Shiite Muslims.
"If North Korea has been a danger, then a bigger, richer, and undeterred nuclear Iran would be a nightmare."

 

NYT in March and Daily Beast on Friday Call Gosnell's Born-Alive Victims 'Fetuses'

Viable fetus and womb

Newsbusters  "In the paper's only story relating to the trial of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell on March 19 on Page A17, Jon Hurdle at the New York Times opened by telling readers that "In opening statements in court on Monday, prosecutors charged that a doctor who operated a women’s health clinic here killed seven viable fetuses ..." -- not already-born infants."
....
"Even more troubling than the lack of coverage of the Gosnell trial is the apparent indication that there are more than a few members of the press, including at least one at a publication which believes itself to be the standard of journalism, who won't recognize a just-born infant for what it is: a baby."

More About AP's Tags: Gosnell's Serial Murder Trial Is About 'Abortion Controversy' and 'Reproductive Rights'
" "Abortion controversy" has been applied to 10 of the 14 stories about Gosnell, with no apparent logic as to why it was or wasn't used.
"The "reproductive rights" tag has been used in the following Gosnell "Big Story" articles:"    Examples given:

Why Aren’t More People Repelled by the Left?

Powerline  "Here is something I don’t understand: liberals are often revealed as vile, vulgar hatemongers–not all of them, of course, but far too many–yet they never seem to pay a penalty at the polls. Why is that?
"Margaret Thatcher’s death has been the latest occasion for the Left to show its true stripes. All across the U.K., there have been demonstrations–vulgar at best, and violent at worst. In Bristol, lefties celebrating a Thatcher “death street party” started fires, destroyed property and battled police:"

....
"Here in the U.S., the last similar display from the Left was the Occupy Wall Street movement, but liberal violence and general hatefulness have a long and consistent history.....
"It is notable that violent leftists are never denounced by Democratic Party politicians. On the contrary, as we have seen most recently with Kathy Boudin, they find them well-paid jobs as professors when they can. ....nearly every communication that emanates from the Democratic Party is a hateful, over-the-top smear against Republicans."

Related: Police: NY man attacked Army officer at Wal-Mart  "The Army captain told police that a man behind him in line began to yell derogatory comments at him about the United States and his service to the nation. Police say Wu then struck the officer several times in the face. The officer was treated at the scene.
"The video shows the officer, dressed in camouflage fatigues, confronting the man before being attacked."

TIP LINE FOR JOURNALISTS: Did Your Editor Spike Kermit Gosnell Coverage? Report It Here Anonymously

PJ Media  "In an immoral, unprofessional, bizarre — surely, several other negative descriptors are apt — display of unity, virtually the entire U.S. media industry save for those generally referred to as “conservative outlets” have instituted a blackout of the trial."

Infanticide — the crime that gave even Timothy McVeigh pause — is a left/right issue for your employer? 

 "The media behavior regarding the trial of monster Kermit Gosnell is a turning point: with all of conservative media’s complaints regarding the liberal bias of U.S. media, we never imagined this could happen. 

"We know there are journalists out there infuriated by their employer’s current behavior: The change must start with you.

 "We are looking for whistleblowers: if you have any information regarding why your employer is not covering the Gosnell trial, please submit it here. Your anonymity will be protected."





The Gosnell silence: Murder, abortion and the media "The sensational nature of this case alone justifies massive media coverage. The doctor ran a filthy, uninspected clinic for decades as state regulators looked the other way. He infected women with diseases by using unsterile equipment. Two of the women who came to him for abortions died. But Kermit Gosnell is not a household name for one reason: His crimes raise uncomfortable questions for supporters of unlimited abortion on demand."

The Blaze 

Not Obama’s Gettysburg Addresses

Legal Insurrection   "Will the media compare Obama’s speeches against the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act to the Gettysburg Address, as it did for Obama’s Newtown speech?
"I think not. Certainly not after Kermit Gosnell.
"They were not Gettysburg Addresses.
"The ground in which the dead were buried was not hallowed.
"The dead were not honored.
"Nor resolved that they shall not have died in vain." 

 

What don’t you (or didn’t Obama) understand about killing a baby born alive?

I Went to Bed a Christian and Woke Up a … Terrorist?

Doug Giles  "Yes my brethren, your love for God and country has caused thou to be deemed a menace to our national progress at least as the Leftists’ deem progress. Congratulations.
....
"Indeed, according to “them” we must forget the fact that it’s been nutty Muslims that have terrorized us for the last couple of decades and that it’s been radical leftists that have aggressively eroded our constitutional liberties. Parts of our armed forces and police departments have been told to just white all that stuff out and believe that it’s guys like Chuck Norris who are the real hazard that our cops and our military need to be concerned about.
Mr. Giles gives us a checklist to determine if we are a terrorist that includes these items:

....If you recognize, appreciate and wish to pass on to the next generation America’s godly heritage – you might be a terrorist.
· If you like the Declaration of Independence, our Constitution and the Bill of Rights – you might be terrorist.
· If you have Jesus Take the Wheel on your iPod – you might be a terrorist.
· If as a single man, you have told a homely single lady that, “all you’re looking for is a godly woman and that you don't care that she’s not attractive." – you might be a terrorist.
· If you believe Jesus is Lord and not the state – you might be a terrorist.
· If you raise your kids to be productive, independent and righteous kids who love God and our country and not be narcissistic entitlement hookers – you might be a terrorist.....

Obamacare is Imploding

Alan Caruba

"The bad news for Democrats and worse news for Barack Obama is that, since it was signed into law on March 23, 2010, Americans have had three years to learn what a total socialist time bomb Obamacare is. If you wanted to destroy the nation’s economy, you could not have chosen a better way."

While you were sleeping, radical 1960s leftists took over the education system

College Insurrection
"How have we come to the point where so many criminals, terrorists and radical leftists from the 1960′s hold so many prominent positions in American academia?
"Michael Moynihan of The Daily Beast explains.

 The New York Post reported that Kathy Boudin, a professor at Columbia University, was named the 2013 Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School. In 1984, Boudin, a member of the Weather Underground, a violent, oafish association of upper-class “revolutionaries,” pled guilty to second-degree murder in association with the infamous 1981 Brinks armored car robbery in Nyack, New York. Babbling in the language of anti-racism and anti-imperialism, Boudin assisted in ending the life of three people, including Waverly Brown, the first black police officer on the Nyack police force, and left nine children fatherless. She was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. In 2003, Boudin was released; by 2008 she had landed a coveted teaching position at an Ivy League university.

 

Transforming Normalcy

Mike Adams   "In order to fully understand the extent to which the homosexual left is trying to make perfectly normal mainstream opinion seem hateful and offensive, click on the following link to hear Morse's "offending" speech. Any fair-minded person who listens to the whole 30 minute podcast will arrive at the same conclusion: there is nothing there for any normal person to take offense from.

"But the homosexual left is anything but normal. It is a movement that relies upon hysteria to breed intimidation. Take a few minutes to compare what you saw in Morse's speech with the reactions from the Gaystapo. Here are links to two of the more egregious articles from the other side:"

(Left) Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and author of Letters to a Young Progressive: How To Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don't Understand, due out in April..

Mike Ramirez on the latest efforts at gun control

 

Another shakedown by the left

Posted at Sense of Events; "There will be a lot more of this in the coming months."
 
Tell me again about the freedom of our convictions here in America. Here is an article from Think Progress, a left-wing publication, and part of what Professor Mike Adams calls the "gaystapo":

Washington Florist Faces Second Suit Unless She Donates To An LGBT Organization
"Here are the conditions the couple’s lawyers provided to the discriminating florist:

• You agree not to refuse to provide flowers and other goods and services to any person on the basis of his or her sexual orientation.
• You agree to write a letter of apology to Mr. Freed and Mr. Ingersoll to be published in the Tri-City Herald.
• You agree to donate $5,000 to the Vista Youth Center, in lieu of payment of attorneys’ fees.

MSNBC segment: Host asks young daughter if she’d marry a girl when she grows up   "Flip the subject being pushed on the little girl to something like pro-life values and MSNBC would be reporting it as child abuse:"

John Piper: A thoughtful pastor’s teaching on what the Apostle Paul says about homosexual behavior in his letter to the Romans
The time is coming when John Piper can be jailed because of these words.
C.S. Lewis recommended reading at least one old book to every three new ones, because while the new ones may be trendy, books that have stood the test of time are more likely to reflect “the great body of Christian thought down the ages.”
What Lewis said about books also pertains to sermons. When a new idea—like same-sex marriage—is sweeping through society like a scythe, it’s good to see how thoughtful pastors in past years have taught their congregations to think about homosexuality. [Linked here] is a sermon that Minnesota minister John Piper gave on Oct. 11, 1998.

Never Again!

Derek Thomas  "I have been listening to Dimitri Shostakovich’s Trio No. 2 in E Minor, op. 67. It is a vivid depiction of the Nazi death camps. And this past week saw the 60th anniversary of a Soviet army officer (Anatoli Shapiro) and his battalion’s arrival at Auschwitz to discover 7,000 starved and emaciated prisoners left behind when more than 50,000 had been marched out to the snow and almost certain death in the Nazi attempt to cover up the evidence of what was taking place. 1.5 million Jews were exterminated at Auschwitz, a place that has become symbolic of the Nazi holocaust. Shapiro, now 92 still recalls the scene: "We came upon groups of people in striped uniforms. They were no more than skeletons. They were unable to talk. They had a blank look in their eyes," the 92-year-old Shapiro told Reuters."....

The narrator who introduces this film is Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi hunter and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. 

 

Continuing with Thomas's article:

The Nuremberg trials showed that Germany's trend toward atrocity began with their progressive embrace of the Hegelian doctrine of "rational utility," where an individual's worth is in relation to their contribution to the state, rather than determined in light of traditional moral, ethical and religious values. Read more.